Search Results for: 2000-06-26

Indonesian authorities on Wednesday charged well-known radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with aiding an al Qaeda linked terrorist cell. Bashir, who was arrested Monday is accused of operating a...

US Representatives Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) on Wednesday introduced a resolution calling on the Rwandan government to release detained US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder [professional profile;...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to delay a by-election scheduled for Thursday in the district of the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile;...

The Pakistan government will challenge Monday's Lahore High Court ruling blocking Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from running in upcoming parliamentary elections, current...

A Pakistani court Monday blocked Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from running for parliament, finding that a prior criminal conviction rendered him ineligible for office. Earlier this month, the...

The head of a special three-judge panel of Peru's Supreme Court announced Friday that the court would consolidate six separate charges against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori into three "megatrials" and one other trial...

The US Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear a second case challenging the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . The court granted certiorari in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 11-7 to send to the full Senate a proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the...